Wilhelm Hessberg

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Wilhelm Freiherr von Heßberg headed the main organizational office of the neo-pagan German faith movement from 1934 . He was the organizer of the movement's largest event in the Berlin Sports Palace on April 26, 1935, in which, according to Fritz Gericke, 18,000 people took part. The event represented the high point in DG history.

After the event, he demanded Gericke's “voluntary or involuntary resignation” in connection with a “review of the fitness of the leadership” . According to Ulrich Nanko , these demands were actually directed against the program and goals of the DG. The change in leadership within the DG (Hauer resigned in April 1936) was the result of efforts by National Socialist members of the DG to “impose their will on the DG by all means”. A group of National Socialists active in the DG wanted to make the DG the extended arm of the SS in the fight against the Christian churches. Either Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich or subordinate bodies from the SS and SD were behind the demands for resignation against Gericke and Hauer. Critics threw Gericke and Hauer u. a. propose to conduct the confrontation with the Christian churches in a "noble tone". However, a tougher form of confrontation against the “main enemy” in Rome is required. The DG had to be the NSDAP's “vanguard” on this issue. Gericke and Hauer would not have met this requirement. After Gericke and Hauer left, the DG entered a National Socialist phase.

literature

  • Dierks, Margarete: Jakob Wilhelm Hauer 1881–1962. Life - Work - Effect , Heidelberg 1986.
  • Nanko, Ulrich: The German Faith Movement. A historical and sociological study , Marburg 1993.
  • Schaul Baumann: The German Faith Movement and its founder Jakob Wilhelm Hauer (1881–1962) , Marburg 2005.

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  1. ↑ Nanko 1993, pp. 183ff.
  2. ↑ Nanko 1993, p. 276.
  3. ↑ Nanko 1993, p. 278.
  4. ↑ Nanko 1993, pp. 278f.
  5. ↑ a b Nanko 1993, p. 286.
  6. ↑ Nanko 1993, p. 281.
  7. ↑ Nanko 1993, p. 279.
personal data
SURNAME Hessberg, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heßberg, Wilhelm Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary of the neo-pagan German Faith Movement (DG)
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century